Times change. She doesn’t need to work but chooses too, it’s her family’s business just like the farm is mine.
Feeding staff
- Thread starter Will 1594
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- Location
- East meath/dublin
True but years ago my grandfather always had no problem getting workers as he " fed well " He also employed a woman to help my grandmother prepare the meals
When i was growing up my father had three men working who had their breakfast dinner and tea with us . God bless my poor mother how she coped fails me . When we were away from the yard she always had big lunch bags ready for everyone .
My father reckoned he could get more hours and work out of the men without parting with any extra cash if the were well fed .
Once a new recruit inquired about the overtime rate only to be told " we dont bother with that here arent you been fed "
When i was four or five a long standing man departed after the spuds were planted to work for a silage contractor for an extra ten bob a week .
Word reached my father that when he asked his new employer what time was the dinner he was told " im a contractor not a caterer sort out your own grub "
He was back with us for the harvest and my father said " BeGod johnny youre like a homing pigeon you found your way home " .
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
I noticed that with the slurry pumping, worked for one chap where that's all we did. We'd do big hours year round (before winter spreading bans) especially following other contractors silage gangs as farms wanted stores emptying as soon as the chopper left. Lads would be yacking away on the CB about all the farms they got fed, we'd be listening thinking 'hang on we were there yesterday and got nothing
Did have one excellent place where they fetched out a flask of the worlds nicest coffee for you and at night you'd get whatever they were having for tea. Bit tricky eating a full roast whilst spreading up and down the paddock (before autosteer) pump man loved it though.
Willie adie
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
When we were stopping on a ranch in Montana, the gathering and working with the calves, involved several families. Our Hostess went to the local supermarket and bought a huge pile of (crap) mince and soft baps. The mince was browned and a powdered mix added with water and then simmered until it had all thickened.
Mince was spooned into the baps, it was called Sloppy Joes... I much prefer the sound of your catering @Cowslip
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Gerbert
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- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
Sloppy joes, sounds like a second rate bothel.
- Location
- Shropshire
Well the Dutch would know
- Location
- Yorks
Always home made cake and a cuppa at drillman's
The wife excelled again . Day at work
Then dropped 4 packs of Bsles on wsy , she loves them as can load her self
Then brought slow cooker full of chicken leek onions peppers peas Pearl barley
Then scones and her cakey flapjack
Fed 4 , then home
Then dropped 4 packs of Bsles on wsy , she loves them as can load her self
Then brought slow cooker full of chicken leek onions peppers peas Pearl barley
Then scones and her cakey flapjack
Fed 4 , then home
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Tractorstant
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- Location
- Monaco.
Be nice if one-day one of the houses surrounding anyones land came out with a sandwich or an ice cream, instead of a note to say stop spreading muck.
Ramrod
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- Location
- Skendleby Psalter, Lincolnshire
Had one that used to bring pot of tea out to combining gang.
Ali_Maxxum
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- Location
- Chepstow, Wales
Had one that would bring out a mug of tea where we would mow next to him, we stopped mowing there and he moved, he still hasn't moved next to anything else we mow..... yet!
Some and some around here. Years ago, while working for my old boss, the only time you'd get a coffee was while TB testing, however it was always only lukewarm at best. I eventually caught his wife hiding in the barn with the tray of drinks waiting for it to cool down so that we didn't stop for too long because of the drinks being too hot!
Some places you'll not get offered an empty glass of water and be working your bolloks off all day and others you'll turn up and clip 50 ewes and be fed a full on cooked meal.
Some places you'll not get offered an empty glass of water and be working your bolloks off all day and others you'll turn up and clip 50 ewes and be fed a full on cooked meal.